AUTHOR

Wendy Meddour

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Professor Wendy (O’Shea) Meddour is the Director of Creative Writing at Exeter University, UK; and after gaining her PhD, she spent 8 years teaching English Literature at Oxford University. Her debut children's book was shortlisted for the Branford Boase Award for 'Outstanding first novel', and she has gone onto publish over 15 children's books with leading publishers (many of which have been translated into Arabic, Japanese, Chinese, German, Korean, Turkish, Spanish, French, Greek and Russian). Winner of numerous awards (including The International Margaret Wise Brown Award for Children's Literature in 2020 and UKLA Outstanding Winner (2023)), Wendy's celebrated titles include the ‘Wendy Quill’ series, 'Lubna and Pebble' and 'The Friendship Bench'. Wendy is best-known for writing children’s books that address challenging topics in sensitive, funny and heartwarming ways.